last september when the brizo people were acquainting us with their brand, the group of designers i was part of couldn't have been more excited when the brizo peeps announced "ladies and gentlemen, look under your seats- you're all going home with a brand now brizo faucet!" (please read in your best booming oprah voice). i mean flown to new york, wine, dined and limoed around to one of the hottest fashion shows of fashion week, and sent home with a fabulous brizo smart touch faucet with a list price of around 700 bucks? really? those brizo folks know how to treat a designer right!

so m21 came home with a gift certificate for a fancy-schmancy single -hole, deck mounted kitchen faucet that he unfortunately couldn't use as his kitchen is a wide-spread wallmount. (and boy are we bummed- pull-down nozzle = heaven). we've held on the certificate thinking we'd use it for a client kitchen remodel, but you know what? in the last 6 months we haven't touched a kitchen job, and we don't have any on the horizon either, so YOU, my lucky readers will be the recipient of brizo's largess and one of you will win either a beatiful talo or venuto faucet in your choice of finish!

of course, there is a catch- isn't there always? but it's not a horrible catch- you just need to go to facebook and like my maison21 page. see, not so horrible, right? come back here after you are done, and let me know you "liked" me by sending an email with "BRIZO" in the subject, along with with your name (so i can check to make sure you really like me) and which faucet you've picked, venuto or talo. if you already "like" my page, just send the email with BRIZO in the subject, and let me know you are an old skool m21 liker...

imma pick the winner by random number generator in one week, and will contact you to get your mailing info if you're the lucky one. just a warning- you can't have anything but the faucet listed on the above card, and you can't bug the brizo to exchange it for something else, or refund it, natch- the win is for the listed item only, and is non-transferable. the brizo peeps are being nice enough to send it to the winner, but that's it as far as their responsibility goes... and of course, you are responsible for installation, blah, blah, blah... (contest only open to US residents, by the way. sorry, my international friends- love you, but no international shipping on this one).

"but wait, m21, can i get a second chance to win?"

why yes, you can! simply visit my joss & main curator's collection sale starting tuesday evening, january 31st at 6pm PST/9 pm EST, running through wee hours of saturday morning (3 1/2 days), and send me a second email with "BRIZO" in the subject, and the posted name & price of your favorite item from the sale (so i know you really visited and didn't just list something from the pictures i'll be posting on my blog- we're making you WORK for this faucet, right?). you don't have to buy anything of course, just let me know what you liked best from my "black, white and BOLD" curated collection- easy-peasy and double the fun!

who the heck is maison21?

maison21 is christian may, a los angeles based interior decorator with decided opinions about design. he'd like to share those opinions with you, to make the world a little bit prettier for the good of all mankind...

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